Facebook Engineering VP Cory Ondrejka, key in Oculus acquisition, to leave company

Cory Ondrejka, Facebook’s Vice President of Engineering, announced Tuesday that he will leave the company on Dec. 22. Ondrejka led Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, the virtual reality company the social network purchased earlier this year.

Ondrejka announced in a Facebook post that he’ll start his own company, but didn’t offer specifics:

December 22nd will be my last day at Facebook. From high-performance javascript through mobile to virtual reality, I could never have predicted a journey quite like this one.

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